Farr Bay Inn, Clachan is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1977.

Farr Bay Inn, Clachan

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1977
OS grid reference
NC 715 622
Coordinates
58.52956, -4.20714
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Farr Bay Inn, originally the Old Manse of the Church of Scotland, dates from 1819. It is a two-storey and attic house with three bays, originally harled with painted rendered margins. The front elevation features a projecting gabled porch that covers the central doorway, and two gabletted dormers. The windows are largely 2 and 12-pane sashes, with corniced end stacks and a slate roof. A rear wing extends at a right angle to the main building, with a further two-storey and attic extension running parallel to the front range.

The interior has been significantly altered. An upstairs room at the rear retains hand-painted flowers decorating the window shutters. A datestone bearing the joint Sutherland/Stafford Arms is visible on the building. References to the property appear in The New Statistical Account (1834), page 76.

Local climate

Farr Bay Inn, Clachan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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